Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. Earlier today, there were two pieces of legislation before the parliament. One was on the ACCC and increased penalties. The second went directly to the issue of trucking and transport. Indeed, what happened was that the coalition came in here and moved a suspension of standing orders to bring forward the ACCC legislation through all stages to increase penalties. They did that, and in that debate they said, 'We'll support anything to do with the fuel crisis, and it needs to be done today—not delayed, done today.' So the Leader of the House moved an amendment to the motion to ensure that the two pieces of legislation that were before the House both increased penalties for any breach and abuse of price gouging—one would have thought that something that would receive support—and was also directly about trucking, directly about the question that's raised by the member for McPherson.

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